buckminster1 - 5:02 pm on Dec 21, 2008 (gmt 0)

i began using linux around 2 years ago with Puppy Linux. Now, I am running an Ubuntu 8.04 LAMP box.

If you are looking for virtualization products, VMWare Server 2 is great. they switched over to an all web based product. you have to download a 15mb add-on - VMWare provides a link. Need to try that with Opera.

As a part-time web designer, I use GIMP quite a bit, and then sometimes Irfanview for quick edits running on Wine. I have never found Dreamweaver equivalents in Linux, so much of my work is coded in Gedit. PHP makes it too easy to make a template and simply have one index file... RAMBLING

One more helpful hint: Instead of dual boot, I used VMWare (as mentioned above). Then, I can run both at once instead of having to restart to get at *indows.

Also, I created two ext3 partitions on my drive. One for all of my data and another for the operating system. It protects your files from potential problems with the operating system. So, I ended up with two ext3 partitions and a 3 GB swap.